On 10/12/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem may be related to the fact that Python is rarely teached at > > school or university. I know no school or university in Germany that is > > teaching Python. > > I teach Python to the first semester, at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut > in Potsdam, for the third year now.
My wife (and fellow PSF member;-) Anna, a major in Symbolic Systems at Stanford, has noticed the interesting coincidence that TWO of her courses this quarter suggest Python as the preferred language to do the course assignments (although both courses accept other languages as well, focusing on the results and not the language used to achieve them, the teachers think that Python is the best language to "get out of your way" and let you focus on the courses' specific subjects rather than on programming problems). The two courses are Computational Linguistics and Computer-Human Interactions. The CHI course also offers a short optional Python seminar for students that want help learning it (I believe the exercises specifically use Nokia phones, so I assume the seminar will also cover the specifics of the Nokia Python development environment); Anna volunteered to do a similar short seminar for the CL course (I helped out -- took us a Saturday). All students taking CHI and/or CL have already taken programming courses (typically more than one), mostly using C++ and Java (and often C), but as far as I know there is no Stanford course (at least not within Symbolic Systems) that focuses specifically and exclusively on Python (there IS one course, Programming Paradigms, that covers Python as well as Lisp, Prolog and some FP language). Of course, Symbolic Systems majors typically don't think of themselves as "developers"; they're more likely to end up, say, as "CHI experts", "computational linguists", and the like... Alex _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com